Confirmed: Microsoft To Kill Windows Live Messenger in 2013

most of my msn contacts have also disappeared. And worse, many of their accounts have been taken over by spam bots.

MSN and Y! chat are big overseas, not so much in the US from my observation over the years.

If you never want to see them nor speak with them, and they're never online, why are they on your contacts list?

Why would I spend time managing contacts on a network/service that I rarely use.

IE - some people use myspace to communicate with select people, but would never spend time to update a friend list on a service they rarely use. Imagine if they just imported all of your friends from myspace to fb.. disaster